LarryH57 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Whenever I pass a local café and smell bacon and eggs I'm transported back in my mind to my time in the Army heading from my billet to the cookhouse for breakfast (usually around dawn), complete with knife, fork and spoon and mug in left hand behind my back and marching in step with one or more persons, never on my own (which may have been discouraged) and taking a route round the parade ground, as god forbid that I should crossed it and be spotted by an SSM as in his words I'd wish I'd never been born! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcot1751 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Things I remember............. bumpering corridors, cleaning windows with newspaper, lining up for injections, bulling boots, bed blocks, range declarations, spray on starch, drying rooms, compo rations inc oatmeal blocks, site guard, wet kit and blisters, good mates, girls and BEER :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mash Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Things I remember............. bumpering corridors, cleaning windows with newspaper, lining up for injections, bulling boots, bed blocks, range declarations, spray on starch, drying rooms, compo rations inc oatmeal blocks, site guard, wet kit and blisters, good mates, girls and BEER :-D Not so much memories more like realties :undecided: Oh also add the mountains of paperwork, no pay rise for years ............. I could go on but properly better if I don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughman Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Things I remember............. bumpering corridors, cleaning windows with newspaper, lining up for injections, bulling boots, bed blocks, range declarations, spray on starch, drying rooms, compo rations inc oatmeal blocks, site guard, wet kit and blisters, good mates, girls and BEER :-D Condensed milk in a tube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondshooter Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 free petrol on the weekends , we got to use the workshops to do repairs on our cars. all the Scorpions had their turrets traversed and little tubes syphoning into a drum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 When sat in a traffic queue near woods or farmyards, I find myself allocating space for two Sultans back to back (three in a T to park Zero Charlie, the Into/NBC Cell if lucky, or four in a cruciform if we had an artillery battery commander attached, with a 432, if we were exceptionally lucky). Rebro Ferrets in there, rovers (CO, 2IC in Land Rovers, RSM in a Ferret) in there. One way circuit for visitors, approach from this direction. Radio masts over here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryH57 Posted April 16, 2015 Author Share Posted April 16, 2015 Cigarette smoke; (I gave up years ago) but the smell reminds me of those breaks in convoys or being beside the road in Germany, out of our vehicles waiting for someone or something to happen, so out come the fags! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 spam ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZITIM Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 The smell of disel fuel always reminds me of 40klm route marches. walking behind a unimog truck for hours on end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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